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Re-examining the multidimensional poverty index of South Africa

Magister Commercii - MCom / Poverty remains one of the main socio-economic issues in South Africa and is more prevalent
amongst black African females, children aged below 18 years, and rural residents with low
levels of education. Many local studies focused on money-metric measures in determining
poverty levels but few studies examined factors other than income that are also important to
multidimensional non-income welfare. Therefore, this study re-examined the extent of
multidimensional poverty in South Africa with the derivation of a Multidimensional Poverty
Index (MPI) by considering certain dimensions and indicators that have been ignored in
previous studies, such as isolation, vulnerability, voicelessness and powerlessness.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uwc/oai:etd.uwc.ac.za:11394/8490
Date January 2021
CreatorsJackson, Shinice
ContributorsYu, Derek
PublisherUniversity of Western Cape
Source SetsSouth African National ETD Portal
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
RightsUniversity of Western Cape

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